A Louisiana businessman says his insurance rates went up over 40% and he’s not sure how long he can take it. Mel Bridges has the story.
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President Joe Biden will meet former President Donald Trump for the first presidential debate of 2024 tonight at 8 on CNN. Mel Bridges explains what that means.
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Governor Landry vetoed a bill that would have given him the ability to pardon certain first-time convicted marijuana possession offenders without the recommendation of the pardon board. Brooke Thorington has more.
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A Louisiana businessman says his insurance rates are up over 40% and he’s not sure how long he can take it. Todd Hine, owner of Hine Environmental Services, a small waste services business in Sulphur, says he’s been told auto insurance rates are going up because of the state’s legal climate. He likens it to a casino…
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Hine says his insurance payments went from 300-thousand dollars to over a million, which he was able to negotiate down. He feels increasingly frustrated that he keeps having to pay more.
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Hine met with Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple, who told him insurance relief would come from tort reform legislation. However, that’s on hold after Governor Jeff Landry vetoed a bill that attempted to prevent windfall judgments for car crash victims. Landry expressed concern the bill would prevent a car crash victim from getting the judgment they deserved and would hurt the everyday working citizen. Hine says any insurance relief would help his company pay the bills and keep their customers.
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President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump will meet for the first presidential debate of the campaign season tonight. ULM Political Science Professor Joshua Stockley says both candidates are looking to prove something in the debate. President Biden wants…
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Stockley suggests that former president Trump, on the other hand, be careful of his onstage conduct and study up on domestic and foreign policies.
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Despite all this, Stockley says he doesn’t anticipate tonight’s debate, which is unprecedented early in the campaign season, to be hot TV.
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The debate will start at 8 P.M. on CNN.
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Governor Jeff Landry vetoed a bill that would have given his office the ability to pardon certain first-time convicted marijuana possession offenders without the recommendation of the pardon board. New Orleans Representative Delisha Boyd says the veto letter explanation that her bill was soft on crime doesn’t make sense.
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Landry’s veto letter says the bill is an attempt to have the state accept President Biden’s invitation to join his soft-on-crime, no-consequences-for-criminals agenda.
Boyd, says she’s disappointed because the intent of the bill was not to prevent people from being arrested…
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The bill which received bipartisan support, Boyd says was an attempt to give individuals a second chance so they would have a fair opportunity at things like employment and housing that require a criminal background check.
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First-time offenders found with less than 14 grams of marijuana would have been eligible under House Bill 391.
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Data from the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics shows Louisiana’s unemployment rate decreased for the month of May to 4.1%. Louisiana Workforce Commission Director of Research and Economic Analysis Emily Epps says there were 86 thousand individuals unemployed last month, and the state is recording over 100 thousand vacant jobs, which will likely remain unfilled.
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Baton Rouge added 200 jobs from April and almost 7 thousand jobs from May 2023, which Epps says is expected. What does come as a bit of a surprise, she says, is Alexandria’s job growth from April to May.
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Alexandria also added 600 jobs from May 2023 to now. However, the Monroe area lost 600 jobs from April and 1500 jobs from May 2023, which Epps says is concerning to the Workforce Commission.
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Major industries that showed the most seasonally adjusted jobs gained are financial activities from April to May and construction from May 2023 to 24.
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The Mannings will kick off their 28th annual Manning Passing Academy at Nicholls today. Archie, Cooper, Payton and Eli Manning will join more than 140 coaches teaching the fundamentals of offensive technique and schemes. The program has become a premier offensive skills camp for high schoolers across the country and is expected to host over 14-hundred kinds this year. Saints legend Archie Manning says he never expected the camp to grow past a regional event…
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The camp is open to eighth-through-twelfth grade players and not just quarterbacks. QB’s, wide receivers, running backs, and tight ends will attend seminars, participate in meetings, run through drills, and scrimmage one another over three days of camp. Manning says they aren’t trying to turn every attendee into an NFL player, but they want to make every player better…
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The Manning Passing Academy is perhaps best known for its counselors- dozens of the nation’s top college quarterbacks. Talents like Quinn Ewers, Jalen Milroe, Jaxson Dart, and Garrett Nussmeier will have the chance to learn from Payton and Eli and participate in a public exhibition, but Manning says their primary purpose is to teach the campers…
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